Turning off Adobe Acrobat 6 Toolbars

[Stephen Eccleston]

I found a 2005 message here that suggested that this page by Graham Mayor
(see link below) would help turn off the anoying Adobe PDFMaker 6.0 Toolbar.
I followed his instruction and it worked - until I opened a new document and
the toolbas came back (the instruction had the macro to turn off the toolbar
in the AutoExec macro.

I then added AutoNew and AutoOpen macros to also call the ZapAdobe macro -
and these also worked. But it seems that the Adobe Acrobat is too smart for
Graham and adds the toolbar back when the window focus changes to an already
open document.

http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm

Besides removing the AddIn altogether, does any one have a more reliable
method of turning off the PDFMaker 6.0 toolbar?

 

[Graham Mayor]

The method suggested on the web page works for all documents, but you do
have to open the documents from Word and not from Windows Explorer or the
macro doesn't run.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

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[Stephen Eccleston]

Hi Graham,

Yes, you're macro works - and works when you open more than one document
(all from within Word itself). I had to add in the AutoNew and AutoOpen
versions (copied verbatim from your 'where to put macros' web page) and fixed
those loopholes. At the time when I added the other macros, I found that
changing the focus made the toolbar come back. SInce then I have rebooted my
PC and at the moment I cant duplicate the problem. Also after installing
your macro there was a noticeable delay after the document was opened before
the PDFMaker 6.0 toolbar would appear, then a similar delay before it would
then dissapear. Now this sequence is also gone and new documents open up
seemingly without the toolbar showing up at all.

Thanks for your excellent help Graham.

 

[Graham Mayor]

You are welcome

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[Stephen Eccleston]

Hi Graham,

I know this is not the place for PowerPoint questions - but will the
ZapAdobe macro fix work in PowerPoint as well?

 

[Graham Mayor]

No idea - and I don't have Office 2003 with Acrobat 6 to check any more.
Acrobat 7 and 8 have a separate add-in for PowerPoint. I cannot remember how
it was handled in Powerpoint with earlier versions. Ask in an Adobe or
Powerpoint forum.

If you don't want to use the add-ins (which seems a bit short sighted given
that they provide extra functionality) then the simplest plan would be to
remove the add-ins that post the toolbars.

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My web site www.gmayor.com

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